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What Happens When Our Youngest Citizens Become Our Most Vocal Citizens
Ten-year-old Madelyn saw a need in her community for a sidewalk, so she made it happen.
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Students Find Their Strengths Through Personalized Learning
See how one teacher’s perspective on how personalized learning empowers her students.
Published: June 20, 2019
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We’s Make Better Me’s: Moving from Teacher-Centered to Student-Centered Teaching and Learning
You can’t be student-centered when acting in isolation; instead, we must work at becoming student-centered as a system. We is...
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Could Safeguards for Efficacy Help Balance the Use of Smart Technologies in Education?
Safeguards for efficacy could enable education stakeholders to provide vision and stewardship for embracing emerging technologies for intentional learner support.
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Teaching and Learning Needs Strong Teamwork: Ways to Create Time and Space for Teacher Learning
To build a system of personalized, competency-based learning requires a shared vision, values and common frameworks. And it starts with...
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Designing for All Students: A Policy Framework for the Next Era of Personalized Learning
The State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning will help states ensure personalized learning opportunities for all students.
Published: June 13, 2019
Topics: Education Policy
Topics: Education Policy
Can Competency-Based Education Close Achievement Gaps? Try These Seven Classroom Strategies.
Competency-based education has the potential to close achievement gaps.
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School Culture that Puts Student Well-Being First
At early college high schools, social-emotional supports and relationship development are central.
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Could Future Learning Be Human-Centered?
When we look to the future of learning, we get to imagine what might become possible given the drivers of...
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State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning
This state policy framework will help states define and navigate from systems where a limited number of districts engage in...
Published: June 10, 2019
Topics: Education Policy
Topics: Education Policy
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Positive Math Growth Mindset Environment
StrivePartnership has recently pursued helping move the needle on middle grade math outcomes.
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Student Engagement Through Personalized Learning
High school student Abby Bowser benefits from her district’s commitment to personalized, competency-based learning and its power to cultivate student...
Published: June 6, 2019
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Personalized Professional Development for Teachers an Integral Part of Personalizing Learning in Lexington, South Carolina
At White Knoll High School in South Carolina, professional development for teachers is personalized, which is helping them personalize learning...
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Could Signature Learning Ecosystems Extend Opportunities for Learners?
New kinds of practices, programs, structures and roles could help educators and learners pursue their preferred futures of learning.
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For Early College High Schools, Community Is Critical
Cultivating community is essential for supporting early college students today and in the future.
Published: May 30, 2019
Topics: Community Partnerships, Early College High School, Emerging Trends, Future of Learning
Topics: Community Partnerships, Early College High School, Emerging Trends, Future of Learning
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Personalized Learning According to Middle Schoolers
These middle-school students are empowered by the choices they get to make in their classrooms.
Published: May 23, 2019
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Students in Louisville Creating a Virtual Collection of Learning Artifacts Throughout Their Education
The Backpack of Success Skills initiative in Louisville provides a digital platform that allows students to submit and document learning.
Published: May 22, 2019
Topics: Assessement & Accountability
Topics: Assessement & Accountability
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Changing Student Outlooks on Education: Ohio High School Instills a Sense of Hope and Belonging
Everyone has a voice at Marysville TRI Academy, including those students who might’ve gone unheard in a traditional school setting.
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Parent Meetings Aren’t One-Size-Fits-All
Meetings students where they are means we need to meet parents where they are, too.
Published: May 16, 2019
Topics: Vision and Culture
Topics: Vision and Culture
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Personal Learner Profiles Build Student Agency, Teacher Capacity
Learner profiles are a powerful tool for teachers to understand who their students.
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Personalized Learning Isn’t About Technology. It’s About Giving Every Student an Opportunity to Learn.
Personalized learning is driven by good teaching and strong student supports centered on the needs of each student.
Published: May 10, 2019
Topics: 101
Topics: 101
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What’s Really Important In a Personalized Learning Environment
For this high school principal, personalized, competency-based learning is about supporting unique student needs.
Published: May 9, 2019
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Technology and Personalized Learning
Personalized learning is driven by good teaching and strong student supports centered on the needs of each student.
Published: May 8, 2019
Topics: 101
Topics: 101